#8.10.20

[eleanorcalderfashionarchive]

Eleanor Calder | August 10, 2020

Walking her dogs, before leaving for holiday, Eleanor was wearing ⤵︎

Les Girls Les Boys Tights Shorts

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Les Girls Les Boys Loopback Crewneck Sweatshirt

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#8.10.20 #eleanor calder #eleanorcalderfashionarchive #fashion #2020

[mariamarachowska]

@MARIA MARACHOWSKA - "HUMILITY" "ПОКОРНОСТЬ" - LIVE HD CONCERT - 8.10.20...

#youtube #music #rock #blues #humility #mariamarachowska #siberianblues

[radicalurbanista]

8.10.20, Chicago

Police shot a young Black man (”late teens to early 20s”) on Chicago’s Southside yesterday, then deployed even more police to the area. Eventually the police returned after many community members came out to demand they leave.

Some people robbed the storefronts of multi-billion dollar companies the same night, including Tesla, whose owner, Elon Musk, is the recipient of billions of dollars of government corporate aid and who admitted to supporting a US military-backed coup in Bolivia last year over the potential of then president Evo Morales nationalizing lithium mines to fund the country’s expenses.

Meanwhile, the City of Chicago collected a record-breaking amount from TIF districts, a special tax zoning law used to gentrify neighborhoods, defund local tax bases, and bypass conventional budget laws. Almost 1/4 of Chicago is covered by TIF districts due to new developments in the area. The TIF district saves the developer money while the city spends more money on the infrastructure of the neighborhood as it defunds social services.

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#chicago #defund cpd #abolish police #tif #zoning #acab #blm #black lives matter #tweet #video #news #photo #article #tribune #long post #8.10.20

[joshhhhhhhhhhhhhhh]

Absolutely living for this.

Anyway before I talk about Higurashi episode 2, I wanna give a quick shout to the like 2 or 3 people that either replied or reblogged my episode 1 post with comments about how it’s interesting seeing the perspective of someone who’s not really familiar with the series. Happy to hear people say that, and comments like that make me want to write a lot about each episode in hopes of giving people a unique perspective and not disappointing them, or something. Yeah. I’ll do my best.

So as for the actual episode, I liked it a lot. What prevents Rena from murdering Keiichi as last episode teased is simply him noticing her, though since he’d asked for a saw to help free Sanders anyway, he’s not really sus and nobody gets murdered. I’m quite ready to accept that excuse, and I think a lot of that’s to do with the fact that like, if you’re fuckin, however old Keiichi is, and you’re just hanging in this chilled out village in the Japanese countryside, how likely is it that you’d actually suspect the people around you of being fucked up murderers or something? Rena might make a rather unsettling face, but is Keiichi seriously gonna fucking accuse her of being up to murderous shit? I feel like murder and shit are so detached from most of us that the idea of being so close to it feels unrealistic, and even in Keiichi's shoes where there are context clues, it would still feel farfetched enough to where I don’t expect him to seriously fear for his life or anything. Now obviously we know what’s up, but I do think the setting and tone of the show justify how Keiichi acts here.

I also think that tone is good for allowing certain slice of life scenes to really flourish. So in this episode we play zombie tag, which would honestly be innocuous enough in even the most genuinely innocent slice of life show imaginable. But I mean we do sorta know already that fucked up shit goes on here, that the population are murderers covering up their murders. So even though the zombie tag scene is genuinely a slice of life thing without anything deeper going on under the surface, the characters don’t really want to eat everyone’s innards or something, it still feels quite uncomfortable anyway, and I think that’s cool.

Now I wanna go back to Keiichi and that saw for a second, because this episode does numerous things to basically confirm that this is a timeloop for me. One such thing is that as Keiichi's hammering down on those planks to save our boy Colonel Sanders, he gets a brief flashback of the scene that the first episode opened on of him hammering Rena’s skull in. So that scene wasn’t the show starting at its chronological end or something, that scene happened before where we are now.

Another big confirmation is that the episode opens on Rika being in what I think was called the Shards of the Myriad World or something? Probably should’ve written it down. And she has a conversation with someone close to her whose name was I think Manyuu? Also should’ve written it down. And Manyuu basically tells her “hey you’re going to June 1983 again” and Rika’s all “it’s been nearly 100 years”. Or something to that effect. Maybe I should’ve written that down too. Regardless of the specifics, the scene makes it fairly clear that June of 1983 is the time period that presumably everyone’s looping, and Rika is directly confirmed to know about that fact to some degree.

And I’m assuming we’ll find out some more of the specifics of Rika’s position soon. Because aside from the opening scene being about her, the actual OP of the show features her very prominently too. I guess each girl gets an arc and their own OP for their arc, which is pretty cool. Also, she gets to do some stage performance thing for their festival, which is an important role so like, more evidence that this’ll be her arc. Good looking performance, caught me off guard that it wasn’t CG at all since I’m just used to that this season.

And then moving on from Rika for a second, the last big piece of evidence I have to justify why I think this show is a timeloop is uh

This shot from the ED, which sorta speaks for itself.

And then speaking of ED speculation...

This shot implies to me that Satoko is a victim of some form of abuse. Possibly sexually from a parent or ‘trusted’ adult figure? She looks like she’s being groomed anyway, and she’s definitely not happy with that. We’ll see eventually I suppose.

And what I’m guessing from this is that Rena’s probably dad is a drunk. It’s not clear if he’s on top of someone but he’s definitely elevated from the ground so maybe he’s having sex with someone too. All that alcohol could suggest that he’s drunk, or the woman he’s with is drunk, potentially he got her drunk and is maybe raping her? Satoko’s shot suggests rape to me so maybe they won’t use that plot point twice and instead what’s being implied here is just that her dad’s broadly negligent. Again we’ll find out eventually I asssume.

And I think that’s all I’ve got to say. Good episode, I had fun, all that stuff.

Cute Rena too.

#higurashi #8.10.20

[pintsizedpirate]

“Oh, look what I just found!”

[Rules] [Mun] [DNI] [Ask] [Submit]

#ooc #important #8.10.20

[ener-chi]

I had acupuncture and bleghhh

I decided to do it for my sleeping issues, and also the fact that I was feeling slightly out of balance energetically. Also, I haven’t done acupuncture in over 6 months, so I was eager to get it done again. BUT because I haven’t had it done in so long, my qi was not happy about being moved around, and my entire body hurts lol. At least it’s a testament that it works

Things feel... different, now. I’m more busy than ever - but this isn’t just a hobby for me anymore. I mean, it never was a hobby in a true sense - but it felt like it was something that I did on the side of my life, with my life the main focus. Well... not anymore. Now it’s more that my life is on the side of my Path, which is now the main focus. That’s not right; it’s more that my life is becoming my Path. 

I’ve had several wake-up calls. I need to spend more time in the astral realm. I need to spend more time deeply entranced in it; and I need to start traveling more outside of my Keep, which I haven’t done in a while. I need to start paying more attention to and prioritizing my energy, pruning life activities and bad habits that no longer suit it. 

Basically, it’s time to get more serious about my practice. Which I feel kind of under-prepared for, but... I guess if the Universe says it’s time, then it’s time.

I think that’s it for now. I have quite a bit on my mind, but I still haven’t quite sorted it out yet.

I hope that everyone has a wonderful night!

Blessings!

#mine #journal #8.10.20 #path

[neverendingparable]

"This is the Story of a little girl named Alice. 

Alice used to work for a big Institute dedicated to researching the esoteric and paranormal, where she was the head archivist. Alice's job was simple, most of the time she just sat at her desk and recorded statements. Since a lot of the recordings tended to mess up with the Institute's newer technology, she had to re-record them on an old tape player in her office. 

When she needed help or further research on a statement, Alice would call one of her archival assistants Bradley or Stellan in, or place the task on the new archivist-in-training Jonathan. Alice worked hard and she worked well. And she was happy in her routine. 

And then one day, something very peculiar happened. 

Something that would forever change Alice. 

Something she could never quite forget, even if she wanted to. 

One day, a door that had previously led into the hallways of the Institute, led into an Office building, one she was sure had never been connected to her place of employment before. In fact, she found it wasn’t even anywhere near London, or in any place she could register as Earth. 

The windows showed nothing but blank white and the doors only led into other hallways, never out into the open. 

Something had gone very clearly wrong. 

Shocked and terrified, Alice found herself unable to believe this turn of events for the longest time. 

But as she was forced to come back to her wits, she decided to get up and explore this new place. Perhaps one of these doors will lead her back home.

...

Alas, they never did. Even as Alice made strange new friends who knew more about the Office than she did, even as she stumbled upon her very own self, proud and vicious on her throne of delusions, she came no closer to coming home. 

A dimension here, a dimension there. Poor, confused Alice trying to reason her way through the mess. This odd fellow must be a Stranger, yet this one could only be the avatar of the Hunt. What lessons could Maelle be trying to teach her here? How will this further Alice's own powers, her powers of seeing, of Beholding.

She was doomed from the start, I'm afraid. Her assistants had no idea where she was and while Maelle was fully aware of her desperate wanderings, even she would not extend her hand out to save her little Archivist. 

After all, she had another one, another one who was far less bright and more curious than Alice. One whose strings could be pulled in any direction without even a hint of suspicion arising.

No, Alice, I'm afraid your time has come. You were a decent Archivist, dedicated to your job, but too much so that you would rather cloud your sight with work, rather than experience it first hand. What good is an Archivist that has lost its sense of curiosity?

Yet you have enough curiosity to finish your story. There, with that Mariella by your side, the strange woman who always seems to know where she is going, the one who befriends the odd entities of this place without a second thought, you wander the hallways hoping her intuition will lead you somewhere new. 

You did ask her several times if she can find her way to the Institute, but you fail to understand that Mariella can be just as easily manipulated as you have been. 

She could find the way to the Institute without struggle, yet we will make sure she won't. And anyway, it is too late for you to return now.

You wander down into the dusty Mind Control Facility - such irony doesn't come around often - and marvel at the sea of spider webs, overtaking the abandoned arena in waves of silver. Mariella stays at the doorway, a mixture of awe and disgust on her face. 

Fortunately for her, she is not an arachnophobe. She tries to keep it out of her hair. Unfortunately for you, you wander in deeper, statements running through your mind as everything clicks into place. Why you are here, how you got to be in this very Office at this very time. How the Web had played with you just as I have been playing with you from the very start.

You open your mouth to voice your revelations to Mariella, but falter as you feel a tickle on your arm. Your hand has carelessly brushed into one of the webs and caught the attention of a spider, black and plump, darting its way up your shoulder.

Screaming just gives them more places to crawl into. Mariella watches in horror, but she has just enough sense left not to run in after you. She runs off, to go get help. But the perfectly placed door leads her far, far away from you and it shuts after her, never to open again.

Just like the previous Archivist, you have disappeared without a trace. I am sure his fate was a lot less gruesome than yours, Alice. But there are worse ways to die. I think you don't need me telling you that."

*Click*

Maelle opens her eyes again and takes out the tape from its recorder. 

She studies it for a moment, an ironic smile playing at the corners of her mouth. For a moment, she considers leaving it for the spiders to take away, for when whatever remains of Alice inevitably returns to the Institute, she will be fully briefed on Maelle's betrayal. 

But she doesn’t want to risk it getting into the wrong hands at the wrong time, so she locks it away in a little safe where she keeps other such tapes and several checks sent from the Lucas', in case the Institute needs more funding.

She sits back at her desk and coms the receptionist, asking for the archival assistants in her office. They come quickly. Bradley has ink doodles all over his hands which he tries to hide sheepishly, Stellan doesn’t even bother putting down his coffee cup and Jonathan got too flustered figuring out where to put the statements he was filing down, so he took them along anyway.

They all stand before her, quiet but eyes hopeful. Any news from Alice? Has she been found yet? Does that mean news for them too?

The last few months have been difficult, Maelle made sure. Tensions were high, work had been unfairly distributed and they were all tired, tired of waiting, tired of guessing and ready to move on. Just let things get back to normal.

She eyes them wordlessly for a moment longer, taking on the facade of a tired boss who is figuring out how to deliver bad news. Then she shows them an envelope.

A resignation letter, signed in Alice's favorite pen. A copy of employment proof and a picture. Alice looks happy next to her wife, an american beauty, blonde and blue-eyed like the sky behind them.

Simple cover stories are often better than the dramatic ones. She found somewhere better to be and ditched her old life. It happens. If anyone would travel across the world leaving behind everything for a pretty face, it would be Alice after all.

There are sounds of disgust, resignation and relief, from Bradley, Stellan and Jon respectively. The tensions of the past months bubble over and Maelle lets them rage about being abandoned without so much as a goodbye. 

They have no reason to worry about Alice or even seek out any contact, as her disappearance seemed proof enough she had all but forgotten about their existence. 

When Maelle announces Jonathan as the new head archivist, followed by the generous offer to give them the rest of the day off after they finished their respective projects to reflect and celebrate, no one interjects.

Jonathan spends the rest of the day being congratulated from all sides, egged on by Bradley and Stellan to join them for a mandatory promotion drink. As they celebrate their new Archivist and the return to normalcy, no one spares a moment of pity towards the old head archivist of the Magnus Institute, now lifeless in a bed of cobwebs.

#drabble #archivist!au #archivist!alice #finallyyy #i waited until today to post this #because it's the 8th and everyone knows that's a spider num8er #RIP alice #at least for now #let's say she is...transforming #in her spider cocoon #but not into a butterfly #8.10.20

[jangx2manboongx2]

I just ... I wasn’t ready 😖😖😖

#8.10.20 #bts #bts army #Dynamite photo teasers #bts dynamite #on this day 4 years ago ... i married my husband. lol

[melsordway]

Soap Opera Central Interview with Melissa Ordway

https://www.soapcentral.com/yr/news/2020/0810-melissa_ordway_yr_return_interview.php

#8.10.20 #interview

[beingallelite]

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#fenix #instagram: fenix #aew #all elite wrestling #posted on: 8.10.20

[zeitlosigkeit]

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#zeitlosigkeit #697 #Piano Schönbeck #8.10.20. #2020

[aliceloveanimals]

Smiling kittens 😸❣️

8.10.20

#animals #funny animals #baby animals #pets #cute pets #cat #catlover #cats of tumblr #cats #catoftheday #kitty kat #kitten #kittens #kitty #kittenoftheday

[scorpionsandhoney]

Hey there, Sunflower...🌻🌻

8.10.20

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#hiya! #its been a while😘 #self #summer #august #sunflowers #yellow #flower #wildflowers #tattoos #girls with tattoos #girls with ink #brunette #vintage #aesthetic

[joshhhhhhhhhhhhhhh]

Boo! I didn’t know I’d be watching this censored! Fucking boo!

Yeah to be fair you can’t not do this shot.

Anyway, Akudama Drive episode 1 was honestly super fuckin cool! The character and world designs are god damn great and the artwork and especially the animation of it all really elevates it. It’s definitely a show that’s operating on cool factor, the characters don’t even have proper names and instead work under TF2-esque job descriptions as names, like Brawler and Doctor and Courier. It’s cool. And then we’ve got my fucking girl Tomoyo Kurosawa playing a normal girl to ground us a little bit, but getting wrapped up in the whole thing because she just wanted to help a cat. How cute. And then the cat’s actually like the one who organised this whole ordeal, that’s really sick! Links everything together in a really weird and comedic but very appealing way. I had fun with this show, I went into it thinking it’d just be fun to look at but not much else, but no I actually felt the excitement and I’m looking forward to seeing more.

#akudama drive #8.10.20

[pintsizedpirate]

🏡and 💌!!

🏡- Do you get homesick easily?

“Of course I do. I miss my mom, and my house, and my room, and my friends from home. It’s so different, here. I still like camp! But... yeah. This isn’t my home.”

💌- Do you send letters to home while you’re away at camp?

“All the time! I write home once a week. My mom... replies when she can. She’s really busy but her replies are always really long and she sends me stuff from home! She even sent me a replacement eyepatch when my old one started to break- my mom is the best. And my friends from home write too!”

#answered #ask #mack rambles #camp camp #camp camp blog #camp camp oc #camp camp rp blog #campersona #ic #8.10.20

[celisart]

Damn in the end I couldn’t make it in time but still, happy Yato’s day to all of you! > v

8.10.20

#noragami #Yato #yaboku #yatogami #god on delivery #iki hiyori #yukine #shrine #夜ト #夜トの日2020 #yato day 2020 #yatori #papagami #god of fortune #yato day #yatoday #yatoday2020 #myart #celisart